NB-IoT Contracts in the UK excluding London

Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NB-IoT in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NB-IoT over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 382 434
Rank change year-on-year +32 +52 +87
Contract jobs citing NB-IoT 14 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.025% 0.013%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.084% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £531 £504 £565
25th Percentile £556 £509 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -11.25% +92.00%
75th Percentile £644 £636 £625
90th Percentile £688 £810 -
UK median daily rate £600 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.25 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

NB-IoT falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,013 5,946 7,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.74% 29.15% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,961 3,515 4,880
10th Percentile £225 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £388 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 669 336
10th Percentile £14.87 £12.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £18.51 £15.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £38.24
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +4.61% +77.85%
75th Percentile £62.25 £64.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £72.50 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +11.19%

NB-IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NB-IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NB-IoT in the UK excluding London

NB-IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NB-IoT in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for NB-IoT in the UK excluding London

NB-IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NB-IoT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NB-IoT in the UK excluding London

NB-IoT
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NB-IoT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for NB-IoT in the UK excluding London

NB-IoT
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NB-IoT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England - 12 £600 - 13
Midlands - 2 £625 -
West Midlands - 2 £625 -
NB-IoT
UK

NB-IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) 3GPP
1 12 (85.71%) LTE
2 2 (14.29%) 5G
2 2 (14.29%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) Internet
3 1 (7.14%) Modbus
3 1 (7.14%) MQTT
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (7.14%) WAN
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) FPGA Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) DSP Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) RF Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Field Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) IoT
2 12 (85.71%) FPGA
3 2 (14.29%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 2 (14.29%) Operational Technology
3 2 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Validation
2 10 (71.43%) Digital Signal Processing
2 10 (71.43%) Kalman Filter
2 10 (71.43%) Signal Processing
3 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
4 1 (7.14%) Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.14%) Data Acquisition
4 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
4 1 (7.14%) Low Latency
4 1 (7.14%) Network Architecture
4 1 (7.14%) Network Design
4 1 (7.14%) Network Management
4 1 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (7.14%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) NCSC